Shauna March 2012
Shauna, one of our Partners has provided this beautiful photo with a corresponding prayer. Thanks, Shauna! © Shauna Bjorndahl Enter The Silence do not fear the silence it is anything but quiet but…
Worship Seminar Feedback
Here is what emerged from participants, mostly lay leaders, at the end of a recent contemplative worship seminar led by two SoulStream partners. What we left behind anxiety and having control boxes that I contain God in fear, anxiety and…
Song Lyrics "A Holy Rest"
The SoulStream Leadership Group recently began a planning retreat with a song by Stephen Iverson entitled, A Holy Rest. Here are the beautiful lyrics offered to you for your meditation. A Holy Rest (Stephen Iverson) Calm, quiet, open…
Abba Moses
A brother at Scetis committed a fault. A council was called to which Abba Moses was invited, but he refused to go to it. Then the priest sent someone to say to him, ‘Come, for everyone is waiting. So he…
Sue Monk Kidd
“If it’s God’s Spirit blowing, someone ends up having feathers ruffled in an unforeseen way.” Sue Monk Kidd.
Solace of Fierce Landscapes, p. 76
Belden Lane, in his book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, helps us see the contemplative motivation for true social actioion: ” As a Trappist monk writing his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, from a Kentucky monastery in 1947, Merton came…
Brad re Steve's accident
In the SoulStream community dialogue around the terrible accident suffered by Steve Imbach, the Director of SoulStream, one of the partners said the following. I think it is important for all who want to grow in the contemplative way. …
Two quick quotes
Humour is sometimes the best way to get a truth under the skin. Here are two quick quotes that someone sent me today. I think they are both funny and poignant…. “There will be no Homeland Security until we realize…